The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-26
GE0RGIA'S CAPITAL CITY
THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION TO
ARRIVE TO-DAY.

Railroad Men Floclzing to the City from
all Parts of the STATE and South
Bishop BeclSwith's Wife at Deaths
Door-Mr. Hammond Lectures the
ProhibitionistS.
ATLANTA, GA, April 25.-The following
Supreme Court decisions were handed down
to-day:
w. j. Van Horne, VS. R. McNeal. admin
istrator; from Chattahoochee Reversed.
Luther Renew, VS.. the State; from Sum-
ter. Reversed.
The Interstate Commerce Commission is
expected to arrive here at noon to-mor-
row and it will sit while here in the Chamber
of Commerce. Business interests here and
in other Southern cities are alive to the i'm
portance of this visit of the commission, and
Southern railroad systems show no
less concern. Delegations from
Rome, LaGrange, Washington, Bir-
mingham and Knoxville arrived
to-day and others are looked for tonight
and tomorrow. Gen, Alexander, Mai
Shellman and Private Secretary Anderson
arrived from Savannah to-day. The South
ern Railway and Steamship Association
will meet tomorrow and go before the COM
mission. The Georgia Railroad Commission
will meet tomorrow and will call in a body
to pay its respects to the commission at the
Kimball House. Letters and kilograms
have been accommodating for the commission
several days
The Governor to-day honored a requisi-
tion from the Governor of South Carolina
for Porter Windy, charged with stealing
three bales of cotton from the Richmond
and Danvile railroad at Greenville. Windy
had already been arrested at Gainesville,
and the South Carolina officer was sent for
him this morning
Gov. Gordon went to Augusta this after
noon, where he will deliver the memorial
address tomorrow.
Congressman Gambler passed through At
lanta this afternoon to Jonesboro, and will
deliver the memorial address there to-mor-
row.
ENFORCING ATLANTA'S PROHIBITION LAW.
Philip Brietenbucher plead guilty to
violating the prohibition law today, and
was fined $500 by Judge Van Epps of the
City Court.
Peter Lynch, charged with selling liquor
at his grocery store on Whitehall street, was
acquitted through the efforts of ex-Congress-
erful speech in his defense, in
the course of which he said
that the Prohbitionists and the courts in
this city were so absorbed in seeking out al
legged violators of the prohibition law, the
breaking of which was at best but a misde-
meanor, that they were actually overlook
ing crimes against society. Judge Van
Epps, Mr.. Hammond said, had fined to-day
prisoner 80 and costs for the crime Of
adultery, crime against society, and had
fined another man $500 for selling a drink
MRS. BECKWITH VERY ILL.
Mrs. John w Beckwith, wife of the
Bishop of Georgia, is extremely i'll tonight
and is not expected to survive till morning
The Alabama street wholesale commission
merchants, the Tolbert Bros, have decided
to remove to Kansas City as soon as they
can wind up their business here. They will
engage in the wholesale tobacco and liquor
business. DullnesS of trade, superinduced
by the operation of the prohibition law, is
assigned as the cause for the contemplated
change.
The Capitol City Club tonight held
an election The old officers were reelected
as follows: Livingston Minis President,
Rufus B. Bullock Vice President, H. C.
Stockdell Secretary and Treasurer
Hon. Albert II. Cox will deliver the
memorial Grafton in honor of the Confede-
rate dead here tomorrow